Removable bicycle-handle



(No Model.)

J. O.BLANOHARD,'J1-. REMOVABLE. BIGYGLB HANDLE.

No. 605,626. Patented June 14,1898.

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JOHN C. BLANCHARD,=JR., OF HYDE PARK, MASSACHUSETTS.

REMOVABLE BlQYCLE-HAN DLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 605,626, dated June 14, 1898. a tiiaiol filed Manual, 1897. sea No. 630,057. (No model.)

To all whom/it may concern; 1

Be it known that I,J0HN O,BLANCHARD,J r. of Hyde Park, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Removable Bicycle-Hand] es, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts. 7

So far as I am aware bicycle-handles have been made heretofore either as a part of the handle-bar or secured immovable and practically integrally thereto? Frequently, however, it is very desirable tobe able to quickly remove a handle or attach the same to a new position on the handle-bar. For instance,-if the bicycle should tip over, so that the handle should become split or roughened thereby, tending to injure the hand of the rider, or if the covering of the handle should become mutilated from any cause whatever, in any of theseinstances it would be very desirable to be able to at once remove the old handle and replace it with a new one or at least to loosen the old handle and turn it, so that a newpor tionthereof would be presented to the hand of the rider.

Accordingly it isth'e object of my present invention to provide a removable handle as an article of manufacture, this handle being entirely independent of any bicycle and being complete in itself for adjustment to any usual wheel and beingcapableof production in any style and in any material.

My invention and the details thereof will be more fully apprehended in the course of the following description thereof and will be more particularly defined in the appended claim, forming a part of this specification;

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiments of my invention, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of a preferred form 'of my invention, showing the same in operativeposition secured in place on a usual handle-bar. Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the tubular socket which serves to supportthe handhold or gripping-surface which is secured thereon.

The handhold or gripping-surface A may be and is of any ordinary or preferred kind, cork being shown herein, the handheld being fixedly secured on a tubular member B, which forms both a support for the *handhold and socket for the handle'to he slipped over a usual handle-bar H. Preferably the hand.- hold will be secured by an inclosing ring 0 at each end, these rings being shown in Fig. 1 as preferably threaded on the tubular mem- .ber, thereby independently clamping the handhold firmly in position.

At each end of the handle is a tapering or rounded end piece D and D, respectively, the

latter having a closed end to form the free end of the handle. These end pieces are preferably threaded on their inner surfaces and .oodperatewiththe comically-tapered and threaded end'b of the tubular socket, the latter being split, as indicated at b, Fig. 3, to enable the end pieces to tightly clamp the handle on a handle-bar in any desired position.

In operation if a handle should become inj ured or if the rider should take a fancy to substitute another handle for his old one he would simply apply a spanner or wrench to the faces dof the end pieces and turn the latter back sufficiently to allowthe split ends of the socketmember to be released from their clamping position. The handle would then simply he slipped off from the handle-bar, and another handle would be substituted, the en tire change being accomplishedin a moment and the handle being adjusted to suit the preference of the particular rider.

Heretofore it has been customary to have handles cemented onto the handle-bar, so that it has been necessary to apply heat to the handle-bar in order to loosen the cement before the handle could be removed, the handle, as well as the handle-bar, being liable to great injury by this process, and also in extremely hot weather it has been found that the cement would soften sufiiciently to make the handle loose and liable to twist under the grip of the rider. All these objectionable features are entirely avoided by my invention, and,

furthermore, my inventionenables the rider.

to change the handlefeature of his bicycle at will and affords also a wide field for variety and novelty in the production of handles as articles-of manufacture.

I do not intend to limit myself to the precise details of invention as herein set forth, inasmuch as many changes therein may be resorted to within the spirit and scope of my invention.

The retaining or inclosing rings 0, independent of the end pieces, are particularly well adapted to securing handholds composed of rings of leather or other material put together in ring-like pieces which it is desired to clamp snugly between the inclosing rings.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patout, is-

A bicycle-handle complete as a new article of manufacture, and comprising a support in the form of a tubular socket; extending from end to end of the handle, said support having adjacent to but slightly removed from each end thereof an inclosing ring, material surrounding said support and retained by said In testimonv whereof I have si ned my 0 name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN C. BLANCIIARD, JR. Witnesses:

GEO. II. MAXWELL, Gno. \V. GREGORY. 

